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Jun 3Liked by Jon Tromans

We HAD that - it was a third party service that shut down at the end of 2023. It was called filterize and I paid for it because it was so useful.

It would be great to have that as an organic service. Better than great. Because it stopped wasting user's time doing note housekeeping. If Evernote wants users to rely on Evernote as a more complex use environment it approaches vital in use.

It could do things from removing the "FWD:" in inbound email subject lines to removing a "do now" tag from notes you moved to a completed actions notebook.

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Jun 1Liked by Jon Tromans

Automations could be useful. I guess it would be like using some of the Web Clipper functionality with extra bits? As said in others' comments, I forward emails into my default notebook (!InBox) and then sort them out from there. At the moment you can append to the subject line a reminder, a specific Notebook, and/or a Tag - it would be good if thgere was a way of adding a Tag at that point? I just worry that if things are too automated they'll get put somewhere without any prompt to follow up on it. Winder if anyone has a process which could assist with this? Guess that's why I go down the dump everything in !InBox because at that point I may not have all the information to know what I'm going to do with it.

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That's what I tend to do. Everything goes into an inbox notebook apart from receipts that go in Receipt Dump. I then organise later. Would some of the organisation to be automated!

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May 31Liked by Jon Tromans

I would absolutely use the heck out of a feature set like this. Honestly, it would offset the cost of premium for me. The idea of triggering automations like this would be a game changer.

I would use: if tagged 'hsa' then move to notebook. If source url is nytimes then tag it as "nytimes".

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So many possibilities!

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May 31Liked by Jon Tromans

THX to point to EN webhooks. Never heard about this. Maybe I'll try this with a Make scenario 😉

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May 31Liked by Jon Tromans

I wrote exactly what you described quite a while back. What I wanted was basically Outlook Rules but for Evernote. I have a lot of stuff that gets dropped into my default notebook (!Inbox) which I then move manually. I had a basic thing working using the Evernote webhooks and then my job took over and it withered and died. Maybe now's the time to revisit it?

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Yes, love to see it built in like email clients have filters & rules. Never thought of using webhooks. To be honest I've not looked at the API much and I think it probably need a refresh at some point with task and event functionality starting to happen.

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May 31Liked by Jon Tromans

Just recovered my code and see that it uses the v1 API not the current v2 so it needs updating. I have requested an API key but the application is very much geared for commercial developers (it asks for business name for example) rather than the hobbyist just wanting to programatically accessing their account so it will be interesting to see if I am granted access. Particularly as I have asked for full access which is what is required to do the sorts of things discussed. I'll update as and when.

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I don't think they've touched the API/Developer side of things yet. I've mentioned the API a couple of times and from what I can gather the plan is to completely move EN to new code, shut down the big Java monolith thing that they inherited and then maybe look at building a public API. Could be a while!

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Jun 4Liked by Jon Tromans

"We have created your API key on our production service." better get on and see if I can get it working!

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Nice. Let me know how you got on. They did have some SDK libraries at some point.

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Evernote Helper app - I'm confused by this. I have a feeling it used to be fairly useful. But as far as I can see it only offers two things - create a note from some text entry and take a screen capture. The basic bote creation seems to duplicate what the Scratch Pad widget does from the Home screen. On my PC the screen capture just seems to invoke the Windows Snipping tool. (There seem to be different capabilities between the Windows and Mac versions when it comes to screenshots.)

So, the Helper app can be invoked when RN is minimised or in the background. When I look in my Windows extended system Tray I can only see a barely visible white EN icon which when clicked on opens the Helper app, and disappears when EN isn't running. Wonder why my icon isn't green?

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I think you can remap the keyboard shortcut for the helper and on win 11 Microsoft takes over and doesn't allow you to use their shortcuts! I don't use it myself, prefer a scratchpad.

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